AMTRAK becomes the odd man out…sometimes truncating trips and forcing customers to switch to special buses…sometimes forcing AMTRAK to bus customers all the way. Legal action is an option. It was used last year. But Magliari hopes negotiations this year will resolve the problem.

UP hopes to double-line some segments in eastern Missouri. But that effort is slowed because legal proceedings are blocking the state from giving the railroad an old bridge at Boonville and letting UP use it in eastern Missouri.